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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By: Husan Mahey

Overview of this book

With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Chapter 16: Building Modular Bots and Sub-Tasks

The previous chapter was all about databases. It included a number of practical walk-throughs that demonstrated some of the automation actions available for your RPA projects. You learned all about connecting to databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, Access, and SQLite, and you even explored using connection strings. The skills gained there focused on reading and updating datasets from your database. Using the sample databases from the GitHub repository, the step-by-step instructions guided you on how to apply SQL Select statements, in particular, the Select, Insert, Update, and Delete statements.

This chapter moves away from Automation Anywhere actions and packages; here you will learn more about how to build a well-structured bot. As a good developer, you'll not only want your bot to perform its task without any issues, but you'll also want to build a bot that is easy to understand and is made up of small building blocks...